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Unity 5.x By Example

By : Alan Thorn
Book Image

Unity 5.x By Example

By: Alan Thorn

Overview of this book

Unity is an exciting and popular engine in the game industry. Throughout this book, you’ll learn how to use Unity by making four fun game projects, from shooters and platformers to exploration and adventure games. Unity 5 By Example is an easy-to-follow guide for quickly learning how to use Unity in practical context, step by step, by making real-world game projects. Even if you have no previous experience of Unity, this book will help you understand the toolset in depth. You'll learn how to create a time-critical collection game, a twin-stick space shooter, a platformer, and an action-fest game with intelligent enemies. In clear and accessible prose, this book will present you with step-by-step tutorials for making four interesting games in Unity 5 and explain all the fundamental concepts along the way. Starting from the ground up and moving toward an intermediate level, this book will help you establish a strong foundation in making games with Unity 5.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
9
Index

Counting coins


The coin collection game wouldn't really be much of a game if there were only one coin. The central idea is that a level should feature many coins, all of which the player should collect before a timer expires. Now, to know whether all coins have been collected, we'll need to know how many coins there are in total in the scene. After all, if we don't know how many coins there are, then we can't know if we've collected them all. So, our first task in scripting is to configure the Coin class so that we can know the total number of coins in the scene at any moment easily. Consider Code Sample 2.3, which adapts the Coin class to achieve this:

//-------------------------
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
//-------------------------
public class Coin : MonoBehaviour 
{
  //-------------------------
  //Keeps track of total coin count in scene
  public static int CoinCount = 0;
  //-------------------------
  // Use this for initialization
  void Start () 
{
    //Object...